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1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. | 1 In the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of the king's officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating together there, |
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Yoga and Pilates
I was surprised that there was not a thread about either of these. They are so big.
Anyone practice either? What type of yoga do you love? |
Well, my husband has found a new passion in hot yoga. He absolutely LOVES it. I like yoga, but had a very hard time with the heat, and the studio's normal temperature classes are different.
I enjoy my Windsor Pilates DVDs from years ago, but rarely do them now. I should, though. I love what it does for me. Hmm, definitely something I should work on doing at this point. |
I do power yoga once a week and gentle yoga once a week at the Y for an hour each. Honestly, I do not love yoga. I watch the clock the entire time. But it is good for me.:goodvibes I am more flexible at almost 46 than I was at 16. I have piriformis syndrome and in order to keep running, I have to keep stretching and working on strength and yoga does the trick. What I do like about yoga is that the instructors always stress that this is your practice and to do what YOU can do. So I can challenge myself in some areas and back off in others when I need to. That really helps when you have a back that doesn't always cooperate.:)
I started out really liking bikram then went into more Power Yoga heated, but now I found I like more of a slow flow practice, some deep stretching and gentle classes. I really love Yin Yoga right now too.
Ashtanga, 6 days a week (well, not today, full moon!), and it is now the only exercise I do. I am completely devoted to the practice. I had to quit running because of repetitive stress injuries and was looking for way to stay fit without the pounding. To be honest all those years of running made me incredibly inflexible, so it has been challenging working out all of the kinks, but it is coming :goodvibes
I do yoga videos at home on my "rest" day, the day after my long run, and sometimes before I run.
I have done those Windsor Pilates videos! They are very effective. I need to pull mine out again too. |
My gym offers the following and I try to go as time allows:
Monday - Yin yoga Tues - Mat pilates Wed - power yoga Thurs - Mat Pilates Fri - Asana yoga with meditation Sat - Power yoga Sun - Power yoga and Hot Power yoga I love Hot power yoga so I try to practice that atleast once a week. I find yoga & pilates are good compliment to my running. |
If anyone is an Amazon Prime member, they have several Pilates and Yoga videos free on Instant Video.
I joined My Yoga Online too, there are some great classes on there. |
I used to do Pilates mat twice a week, but dropped out of it a few years ago when I got into running (the classes were at 6am and I just couldn't get up that early and get to the gym before the sun came up anymore.) Oddly enough though, this thread comes at an awesome time. I just signed up for a reformer class. My first session is tomorrow evening. I am kinda terrified! :laughing: It looks hard!
I teach Mat Pilates but hoping to get the full immersion certification in Jan, so I can teach on the apparatus. I need to set up some reformer apts too. Let me know how it went. Im actually putting together a fall workshop on Pilates for Athletes (cyclists, runners, etc) its amazing how it can help your performance. More and more professional athletes are finding this out. Lots of tennis players, golfers and even some NFL players are taking it up now. |
I do yoga once a week on Thursday night. I tell my students that it is the only way I can make it through Friday.
Mine is a flow yoga with a mix of yoga, tai chi and some pilates with a meditation period at the end. I was just thinking about getting out my pilates dvds just the other day. |
I teach both Yoga and Pilates (and well spin/indoor cycle too) and my Yoga classes start and end nice and slow - more gentle/restorative, but we do some flow (mostly slow flow) through the middle part of class. Gives everyone a little of everything I think. |
Well I survived reformer! :goodvibes
And I was very wrong calling it a reformer class. Yes, we used the reformer, but we also used the chair, the cadillac and the tower. It was madness! The pilates studio looks like a medieval torture chamber and there were even more machines and things that we didnt use! The last thing we did had me suspended upside down by my ankles on the cadillac. I was supposed to put my hands on the floor and push up and arch my back. I tried three times, I could not push up. It didn't hurt, my arms just wouldn't do it. It was like I was trying to move the entire floor not my body. It wasn't gonna happen. I couldnt help but start to laugh. Normally what she was asking would have been a piece of cake. I can do a handstand without even thinking about it! I was just whooped without realizing it. I suspect I will be in a lot of pain tomorrow, but in a good way. |
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Bill gives in-state tuition to foreign professionals, families in Washington on visa
A little-noticed measure passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the governor will extend in-state tuition rates at Washington colleges and universities to some foreign professionals working at companies like Microsoft and Amazon, as well as to their children and spouses.
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Who is eligible
THE LAW extends in-state tuition to foreign professional workers and their dependents who are in the U.S. on three types of work visas:
H-1B visas: For workers in any number of specialty occupations
L visas: For executive-level workers who transfer to the U.S. from a company's overseas operation
E-3 visas: For workers from Australia in specialty occupations
Residency requirement: Visa holders must have lived in Washington for at least a year — primarily for noneducational purposes — before enrolling in college or university.
Other aspects of bill: The lower tuition also is available to workers with these visas who have applied for green cards, as most do before their visas expire.
Source: Seattle Times staff
A little-noticed measure passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the governor will extend in-state tuition rates at Washington state colleges and universities to foreign professionals at companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, as well as to their children and spouses.
Under House Bill 1487, which takes effect July 1, the foreign workers would qualify for the same tuition rate as state residents if they have been in the state at least a year on certain kinds of temporary work visas, such as the H-1B.
The measure passed amid a roiling budget crisis and hundreds of millions of dollars in cutbacks to higher education. It was nicknamed the "Microsoft subsidy bill" by some lawmakers who say the software giant and its workers surely could afford to pay the higher tuition rates.
Subject to lively legislative debate, the bill received little attention outside the Capitol. An analysis put the immediate tuition revenue loss at the University of Washington at about $430,000, with potential for bigger losses in future years, and about $215,000 at Washington State University.
State Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, the bill's sponsor, retired from Microsoft in 2000 after 17 years. He said employers in his Eastside district sought the provision as a tool for recruiting foreign talent.
"There are a bunch of people in my district who are in this situation," said Hunter, who is running for King County executive.
The bill passed the House 59-38 and the Senate 31-13.
Lydia Tamez, associate general counsel and director of global migration at Microsoft, said it would allow Washington to attract and keep talented foreign professionals and to compete with about 13 other states, including Oregon, that already offer tuition breaks to foreign workers.
Microsoft has thousands of workers who may qualify.
The company said spouses of the visa holders often cannot work legally in the U.S., leaving the costs of college classes or pursuing a college degree to be borne on a single income.
"These are people who are here lawfully, and are going to be here for a long period of time," Tamez said. "It makes it affordable for workers who are your neighbors, pay taxes, buy homes and whose kids hang around with your kids to possibly earn a second degree at night."
A state resident who is a full-time undergraduate at UW will pay $7,677 in tuition and basic fees next year, compared with $24,352 for a full-time nonresident student.
Rep. Bob Hasegawa, D-Seattle, opposed the measure, calling it unfair to resident students at a time when the state is making it more difficult for everyone to afford to go to school in the state.
"It's a diversion of limited resources," Hasegawa said. "We only allow X amount of slots for resident tuition rates and we are displacing those residents with H-1B visa holders, their families and dependents. Microsoft can well afford out-of-state tuition for its people."
Furthermore, Hasegawa said, some dependents of visa holders already were eligible to receive in-state tuition under a measure passed six years ago.
That bill, HB 1079, was meant to benefit illegal immigrant children who had lived in the state at least three years before graduating from a Washington high school.
But the measure was written so broadly that children of visa holders who also had graduated from a state high school became unintended beneficiaries. State records show about one-quarter of those who have gotten the tuition break since 2003 were visa holders.
HB 1487 will benefit a much broader student population. It doesn't require someone to have graduated from a Washington high school to qualify, and it reduces from three years to one year the time a person must first live in the state.
Certain types of visa holders already qualify for in-state tuition under state law, including those here on fiancé visas, consulate workers, foreign journalists and those working for international organizations, such as the United Nations.
"There have been concerns raised by visa workers regarding how expensive it is if they wanted to start working toward an MBA... ," Tamez said. "We lose workers every year because of the tuition issue."
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As the fight for the GOP nomination moves to New Hampshire this week, the six remaining Republican candidates are picking up their phones, loading up their planes and filling up their email outboxes to convince supporters to hit the "donate" button and help refill their war chests.
Iowa, despite its relatively small population and inexpensive media markets, did a number on candidates' campaign cash. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum both spent at least $1 million campaigning in the Hawkeye State.
But it was Super PACs, independent groups that can spend unlimited amounts of money to support any candidate, that did the financial heavy lifting.
Romney's Restore Our Future Super PAC doled out $4.6 million in Iowa, almost all of which was used on television ads attacking Newt Gingrich, who fell from the top of the polls to finish fourth in Tuesday's caucus.
"Money matters, and you saw it with the way Mitt was able to bring Newt down several pegs," said Norman Ornstein, a political scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "If hadn't been for the $4 million in ads against Newt, he would have been right up there with others, so it's not like money isn't relevant."
The independent group supporting Santorum – who two weeks ago was polling around 3 percent – spent a small fraction of that amount, about $400,000.
But where the first-in-the-nation state taketh away, Iowa caucus momentum giveth forth.
Riding high on his near-win in the Iowa caucuses, Santorum boasted bringing in $2 million in the 48 hours following Iowa's voting – doubling the amount his campaign had raised before the first nominating contest. And that funding trajectory seems to be continuing.
"It's a reality of his candidacy," said Thomas Mann, a political scholar at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution. "Until he managed to play strongly in Iowa, he was largely considered a joke and simply unable to raise money. Now it's flowing in, but it may not last."
With his newfound funds, Santorum is making a play for South Carolina next week that includes a "major" cable television ad buy, a direct mail campaign and hiring additional staff, aides confirmed to ABC's Jake Tapper on Thursday.
As for Santorum, the sixth GOP contender to balloon to the top of the polls, Mann said the odds were the funding stream could dry up quickly if he does not place well in the remaining January primaries.
"We have had a lot of people do well in Iowa and then flame out, and he could be one of those," Mann said. "He may be the fifth or sixth in line of not-Romney candidates, who have risen quickly and then descended even more precipitously."
Ron Paul, who finished a close third in Iowa, is also using his top-tier showing to raise serious cash.
The Paul campaign said today that it raised $13 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, a total only Romney is expected to exceed. The former Massachusetts governor's campaign said he brought in $20 million in the final months of 2011.
Paul, with 18 percent support, is currently in a distant second place in New Hampshire behind Romney's 41 percent, according to a Suffolk University/7News poll released Thursday.
The three-time presidential candidate's Super PAC swooped into the Granite State Thursday, announcing a "six-figure" television ad buy to run next week, including three spots that will run during the ABC News/Yahoo!/ WMUR debate Saturday night.
While Republican fundraisers and super PAC spending is hogging the majority of the spotlight, Democrats aren't sitting on the sidelines of this money game.
The Democratic National Committee, which raises and spends money to support Democratic candidates – including the president - for federal office, raised $6.7 million in November, the last month for which data is available, and had slightly more than $6 million cash on hand as of Nov. 30.
But those numbers pale in comparison with Republicans' reported fundraising. In the month of November, the Republican National Committee took in more than $13 million and ended the month with about $7.2 million cash on hand.
Compared to the president's, both committees' totals are peanuts. In the first nine months of 2011, Obama raised more than $88 million for his re-election. Compare that to the $32.6 million that Romney brought in or the mere $1.3 million that Santorum raised from January through September.
"Obama will not be at a financial disadvantage in this election," Mann said. "He will rasie all the money he needs to run the campaign he wants to run."
ABC News' Shushannah Walshe, Elizabeth Hartfield, Jake Tapper and Michael Falcone contributed to this report.


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I am new to gardening.
I have 2 pepper plants, a Serrano and a Long Thin Cayanne.. Correct me if I am wrong, the Serrano should be eaten when green, the Cayanne when red..
I've taken a couple of peppers "thinking" that they were ready and when I would cut them I noticed the seeds were still forming and tender, and the taste was not close to the one of a pepper.. I have not idea when to harvest my peppers.. any ideas? :( |
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Normally Cayennes are picked after turning red but I have seen several posts saying they can be picked any time prior and usually will just be a bit less hot. I have never grown Serranos but I know they are usually green when offered in the stores. I thought that was more of a color preference thing than a taste thing. Sometimes peppers are picked for the color to determine the color of the sauce or whatever is made out of them. I am no expert by any means but I would say you pick them when you want to. If the Serranos seem to taste "horrible" when fully ripe, then pick them before they change but if time isn't an issue, I would let the Cayenne's get red first. It seems that most peppers grow to full size and just sit there and stay green for weeks before, all of a sudden, one day you come out and look at them and you notice one or two has some orange or red on them. Then within a few more days they all start turning and soon you are pulling them off the plant a dozen at a time. Bruce |
Thanks for the advice Bruce, I want to make dried crushed pepper from my Cayanne, and mexican green salsa from the Serrano. But I still don't know when to harvest them, I mean, I don't even know when a pepper is "fully ripen", I am too new at this. What should be the optimal length? What's considered a full size pepper? Etc. |
- Posted by Jsschrstrcks none (My Page) on Mon, Jan 16, 12 at 23:40
My mother grew seranos this year, and I harvested a number of them for her... We had some that were green, some that were red, both were fantastic. Though the red ones were a bit tougher, and substantially hotter. A quick story - we were camping this year over new years, my sister and her family, my self, and my parents. One morning with breakfast the pepper container was out on the table, and my sister opened it up and saw a slive of a red serano on the top. She saw it and thought it was a slice of tomato (which we've never put in the pepper container but I digress)and popped it into her mouth. She exploded out of her seat and ran to the water cooler running the cold water over her burning tongue for several minutes. We got quite a laugh out of the whole thing. Any way the thing I think to look for in seranos and jalapenos, is when they are ripe, their skin develops what looks similar to a run in panty hose. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Ripe Red Jalapenos
Everyone is right on. You can usually feel when they are ready as well( they soften up a bit). Size has little bearing. Serrano peppers will cork(stress lines or stretch marks). That is the perfect time to pick a serrano. I think when a serrano turns red it is much sweeter and milder. I prefer them green. But if you leave it on way too long they can taste bitter. As for cayenne I prefer them dark red. As soon as the pod is completely colored pick them. They began to get soften faster on the plant than serrano's. Jamie |
Once you pick your red cayennes, if you don't have a dehydrator, just string them up to dry until crispy(you may have to be patient). I've also placed them in a basket on the counter before and stirred them up once in a while until crispy dry before grinding them in my coffee grinder. |
- Posted by Jsschrstrcks none (My Page) on Tue, Jan 17, 12 at 18:58
*Note: If you plan to use the coffee grinder for grinding coffee again in the future, wash WELL in between uses. |
When I pick green peppers to use, I judge by the shade of green, most usually darken up a bit when they are almost mature. Immature peppers can taste awful. Kevin |
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Hot of the heels of Jay-Z's The Dynasty comes Roc-A-Fella's youngest in charge with his sophomore release, coming one year after his debut, Coming Of Age. As his first album hardly broke any sales records, Memphis Bleek is attempting to redeem himself with this quick follow-up, hoping to catch a bigger wave the second time around.
Evidently recorded around the same time as The Dynasty, listeners can expect the same type of camaraderie between the camp, as Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel help the Memph-Man carry this album along, appearing on several of the tracks. This type of intertextuality helps bring the same feel as Jay-Z's recent Dynasty release, and ultimately a more successful turnout than Bleek's Coming Of Age. While Memphis still remains an obvious rookie, good production and the right amount of support from his crew holds this release together much better than his disastrous debut.
Obviously attempting to catch an audience that will judge him less for lyrical content, and more for what he can offer them, Memph keeps the chickenhead's attention well with both like "Do My"and like "PYT". Both feature female-friendly hooks spearheaded by Jigga, and are produced so well that they will easily demand plenty of radio and club play, carrying Bleek into the big leagues. Other tracks, such as "We Get Low", like "Change Up", like "My Mind Right Remix" and the classic bootleg favorite "Is That Your Chick (The Lost Verses)", are also produced well enough, so that Bleek can get away with second-grade rhymes – at least for the time being.
Yet when the production isn't there, in terms of lyrics, it quickly becomes evident that were dealing with an uneducated thug on the mic. "All Types Of Shit", "Everyday", "They'll Never Play Me" and the dreadful Foreigner sampled "In My Life" (which doesn't nearly work as well as M.O.P.'s "Cold As Ice") show Bleek's obvious lack of experience, proving that it's his taste in beats that carries him through this release. His whiney style lacks the finesse and street knowledge of his teacher, Jay-Z, proving himself to be in same league as other cats that have made it this far with doo-doo styles and good production, such as Ma$e and Noreaga.
Nevertheless, this album must be taken for what it's worth. For veteran hip-hop listeners, turning down your intelligence levels a notch is essential, and for others, maybe not. After you've dumbed down your own expectations, listening to the futuristic production styles of Just Blaze and company dropping bombs over Brooklyn is an enjoyable experience. It took Jay-Z over five years to hop off Jaz' back, and it could take Memphis the same amount of time, or longer, before he really can stand on his own. For now, he may just be a hot dog who ain't sayin' Nathan - but over these beats, Nathan sure sounds dope.
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A long time member of the Fairy Tail guild who is a S-Class mage. She also bartends for the guild and is their cover girl in the weekly sorcerer.
When Mirajane was younger, she constantly fought with Erza, her childhood rival, as Natsu did with Gray. She even tried to keep herself, and her siblings, Elfman and Lisanna, distant from "Erza's group." She was pretty much the bully of the guild and used her punkish attitude to intimidate the other members. Although she constantly teased Natsu, she had a soft spot for him and even found him cute at times. As she grew older, so did her magical power and her fame as the 'Demon' of Fairy Tail, earning her the title of an S-class mage.
Fairy Tail Stamp: Mirajane has a white stamp on the side of her left thigh. (See Fairy Tail OAD/OAV)
However, despite her tough image, Mirajane lost her will to fight and her magical abilities when Lisanna was "killed" by Elfman (because he lost control when he tried to take over "The Beast") during a mission. As a result, her competitive and aggressive nature was replaced with a more kind and sincere one. Ever since that incident, she has acted more motherly and has acted as the leader, in Makarov's absence, coordinating the day-to-day activities of the guild. She rarely talked about the incident and the guild members barely touched the subject. But she did visit her sister's grave with Elfman every year in anniversary of her death. However, it was later revealed that Lisanna didn't die, but rather, was transported to Edolas, an alternate dimension, through an Anima where she lived with the Fairy Tail of that world for the past two years. She eventually returns and is reunited with Mirajane and Elfman, who become overwhelmed with joy.
Mirajane was created by Hiro Mashima to showcase the different amount of mages that were present in Fairy Tail, especially the power of an S-Class mage. She, along with her brother Elfman and sister Lisanna, were created to illustrate the power of "Take Over" which allows the user to transform into any person or monster. She made her first appearance in Chapter 2 of the manga and Episode 2 of the anime. Mirajane is voiced by Ryoko Ono in the Japanese version and Monica Rial in the English version.
When a fight breaks out in the guild upon Lucy's and Natsu' s arrival, Lucy asks Mirajane whether she should stop it but Mirajane, who just looks on with a smile, says that it happens all the time. One second later, she gets hit by a beer bottle, causing her to bleed and faint after saying its better this way. Later that day, Lucy learns more about Natsu when Mirajane tells her about his father, Igneel, and how Natsu sees himself in Romeo because Igneel left him and never returned. She continues saying that many of the mages in Fairy Tail carry some wound or pain including herself.
Mirajane explains, to Lucy, the guild's rules regarding s-class missions and the second floor, and how only s-class mages are permitted to access both. Later, Mirajane becomes upset when she learns that Happy stole an s-class job from the request board during the night. Her temper is further tested when she finds out that Laxus did nothing to stop him, earning him a frightful glare to which he hints as more suitable to her former 'demon' character.
After Fairy Tail was attacked by the Phantom Lord guild, everyone in the guild retaliated. But following the fight, Makarov ended up losing his powers, which crippled their chances of winning. In need of backup, Mirajane and Cana attempt to contact Laxus and Mystogan, hoping they would join the fight. But when Laxus starts to criticize the guild and harass her, Mirajane loses her patience and cuts of their communication. She then starts to question as to why someone like him is a member of Fairy Tail.
Although unable to fight, Mirajane decides to help in the war effort by transforming into Lucy, while the named girl was kept in a safe place. However, Mirajane's plan doesn't work and as a result, she is captured and taken hostage. Because of her hostage situation, Elfman, in determination to save her, manages to regain his full body takeover magic and defeats Sol from Element 4. They later meet up with Gray, who defeated Juvia, and run off to join Erza who also managed to defeat Aria. They eventually face off against Master Jose but are overwhelmed by his power. Makarov, regaining his lost magic, confronts Jose and casts Fairy Law on him bringing him to his knees. Mirajane, along with everyone else in the guild, rejoice and celebrate their victory. Following the war, everyone contributes to the guild's reconstruction, including Mirajane, who shows off a handmade blueprint of the "new guild".
When Team Natsu returns from the Tower of Heaven, Mirajane welcomes them back home and performs a ballad in front of everyone in the guild. She soon turns it into a rock song as a fight breaks out. The next day, she's apprehended by Gajeel so that he could sing his song. Later that day, all the women, including Mirajane, participate in the Miss Fairy Tail Pageant. But when Mirajane uses her transformation magic to transform her head to that of Happy's and Gajeel's, her chances of winning greatly diminished. But her, along with the other contestants, were turned into stone by Evergreen as part of Laxus' plan to enforce the guild's participation in a contest to determine the strongest member of Fairy Tail. She was later turned back to normal thanks to Erza.
After Cana was defeated by Fried, Elfman, who was accompanied by Mirajane, decides to fight him, but ends up losing as well. Despite his inability to fight anymore, Fried continues to attack him. Mirajane begs Fried to stop, but when he's about to kill Elfman with his magic, Mirajane snaps. She lets out a scream and a huge burst of magical energy that destroys the terrain around her, activating her Take Over magic: Satan Soul. Her speed and power are so great that Fried becomes overwhelmed. Even after he transformed himself into a demon using his own magic, he was still no match for her. As soon as Mirajane was about to finish him off, she suddenly stops the attack and returns to her normal self. She tells him that they don't need to fight because he's her friend and that everyone in the guild still cares about him because he is still part of Fairy Tail, which brings Fried to tears.
Mirajane is later shown in the Fantasia Parade along with Elfman where she emerges from a rose but transforms into a gecko-like animal.
Mirajane's Transformation Magic Lesson Special
During the Fairy Tail manga series, a special chapter was released in which Mirajane attempts to teach Natsu and Lucy transformation magic. She begins by transforming into Erza, followed by her clothes and voice. In reaction, Natsu runs and cowers behind Lucy. Mirajane then explains that once they are able to master that level of transformation, they would be able to change their physical size and gain new abilities that may become advantageous in battle. She then instructs Natsu and Lucy to take a good look at each other to form a proper image. By knowing the person well, she explains, one will be able to properly transform into him/her.
The duo then begin to concentrate their magical energy into the image they've built up, but nothing happens. Natsu gives it another shot and successfully transforms into Lucy. To Lucy's shock, his vest didn't cover up her "assets" and yells at him to cover up. Natsu, who seems amazed at 'their' softness, continues to feel 'his' chest. Extremely embarrassed, Lucy asks Mirajane whether this is sexual harassment to which she answers that its not that bad since they're friends.
Upon seeing Natsu's accomplishment, Happy tries to copy him. All the men in the guild, interested in what was going on, come over and anticipate what is about to happen. Lucy screams and panics that if Happy manages to pull it off, she would be unfit to be wed since Happy doesn't wear any clothes. To her relief, and the guys' disappointment, it didn't turn out how they thought (she did find it creepy). After Happy's failed attempt, Mirajane transforms into Lucy to please the crowd. In the end, Lucy just states that it feels very awkward for people to mess with her body.
When Wendy and Charle join the guild, Mirajane warmly welcomes them and asks what type of magic they use. Later, Gildartz returns to the guild and is surprised to see how much she has changed. Before the Anima absorbs Fairy Tail and the town of Magnolia, Mirajane and Elfman are seen going to church in anniversary of Lisanna's death. Her Edolas counterpart seems to have a similar personality despite the opposite personalities of the other members. It may partly be because of her 'dark' character when she was younger.
After the events in Edolas, Mirajane and Elfman visit Lisanna's grave but are surprised to see her running towards them. They learned that she was sucked by the Anima to Edolas where she lived for the past two years and once the magic was pulled from that world, she was transported back to Earthland. Mirajane becomes so overwhelmed with joy and happiness that her tears continuously stream down her face. The three siblings then reunite with an unforgettable loving hug.
Following the announcement of the S-Class Promotion Trial and its participants, Makarov outlines the rules of the first part of the exam, which involve Erza, Gildartz, and Mirajane. Their role was to stop the teams, that they encounter, from advancing to the next round. Mirajane's path was Path A, which was chosen by Evergreen and Elfman. During their fight, the duo knew that their chances of winning were dwindling so they had to come up with a strategy. They did just that. The two managed to pass the exam and revealed that they told Mirajane that they were getting married, which shocked her, and both used this opening to defeat her. At the resting tent, she explains to Erza how she lost which stuns Erza completely (albeit she believed that there was potential for the pair). Although Mirajane knew it was a lie to catch her off guard, she imagined what their baby would look like. But the image was so horrifying that it brought her to tears. Soon after, Erza and Juvia decide to search for Mest and Wendy, leaving Mirajane and Lisanna on their own.
While waiting for their return, they are attacked by an army of mages from the Grimoire Heart guild who landed on Tenrou Island. After easily defeating them, Azuma confronts the two and Mirajane tells Lisanna to stand back. Lisanna tells her sister to use Satan Soul but Mirajane replies that she can't keep using it again and again. Once Azuma learns that Mirajane is "The Demon" he requests a serious fight with her. Because of her long hesitant pause, he decides to use Lisanna to get his fight by attaching a ticking time bomb to her body. He states that if he is not defeated in 3 minutes, it will explode. With no choice, Mirajane uses her Satan Soul at its full power to finish the battle as quickly as she can. Although the two seem evenly matched, Mirajane was running out of time. She decides to forfeit the battle and uses her remaining magical power to protect and save Lisanna from the explosion while hugging her. After the explosion, Lisanna wakes to find Mirajane's heavily damaged body covering hers, saving her from the blast. She calls her name but Mirajane doesn't respond. Azuma simply walks away disappointed.
Mirajane is one of the most powerful members of Fairy Tail who can use numerous types of magic such as sleep, darkness, water, lightning, and transformation. Nonetheless, Mirajane is most famous for her demon take over called Satan Soul.
Satan Soul Techniques | Description |
Evil Explosion | Mirajane uses her magical energy to lift water, even from a river, and hurls it at her enemy. |
Darkness Stream | Shadowy hands emerge from her magic seal and attack the enemy. |
Soul Extinction | Mirajane blasts a stream of dark magic at her enemy. She use this move on Freed. |
Evil Spark | Mirajane uses this on Freed when she place her palms on Freed's chest and shocks him violently. |
Demon Blast | Mirajane creates a large ball of dark energy that sends a beam once fully charged. |
Another form of Satan Soul and to Erza knowledge, Mirajane's most powerful spell. It first appeared during the Grand Magic Games when Mirajane faced Jenny Realight.
An exclusive form of Satan Soul that appeared in the anime filler arc. This spell is so powerful that Mirajane was able to destroy an entire city using it. Because of its destructive power, Makarov Dreyar has forbidden her from using the spell.
Other Abilities |
Sleep Magic - Mirajane has the ability to cast a sleep spell on a person, causing him or her to fall asleep. She can generate this effect with just using her bare hands.
Transformation Magic - Mirajane is very skilled in transformation magic. She can transform into any person or animal almost flawlessly, both in appearance and in vocals.
Other Attributes |
Enhanced Strength - When Mirajane was younger, she was able to destroy a table with one hit of her hand.
Enhanced Magical Power - Mirajane is known to harness a large amount of magical power, as stated by Freed. In their battle, she even had enough to lift a river and use numerous dark magic attacks (both water- and lightning-based).
Enhanced Durability - Mirajane is shown to be highly durable, taking multiple powerful hits and explosions and being able to be active in battle.
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Ryoko Ono | 2 |
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Name: | Mirajane Strauss |
Name: | ミラジェーン・ストラウス |
Romanji: | Mirajēn Sutorausu |
Gender: | Female |
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1st manga book: | Fairy Tail #1 |
1st anime episode: | Fairy Tail #2 |
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Aliases | Demon Mirajane Mira |
Fairy Tail the Movie: The Phoenix Priestess
The first anime film adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga series. |
Welcome to Fairy Hills!! (OVA)
This is the first Fairy Tail OVA (OAD) in the franchise. |
Fairy Academy - Yankee-kun and Yankee-chan (OVA)
This is the 2nd OVA/OAD episode in the Fairy Tail franchise. |
Memory Days (OVA)
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lol I was just expresing myself , as long as he isn't two-timing any other girls, it's okay. This chapter makes Hanai looks as if he is an extrovert in "loving" Yakumo (if you call that "loving"), but deep inside he love Mikoto.
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GARHWA: The district health department finds itself grossly understaffed, especially at Garhwa sadar hospital and community health centres of Meral and Ramuna blocks.
The doctor crunch has been badly affecting healthcare services in the district for the past many years. At Sadar hospital, there are too many patients and only a few doctors. There are only five doctors to take care of the over-crowded hospital getting more than 200 outdoor patients daily. The five doctors are Kaushal Sehgal, Pushpa Sehgal, Ragini Agrawal, Barnawal and Ram Vinod. Of them, Ram Vinod also takes care of the blood bank.While Kaushal and Pushpa often remain absent from the Sadar hospital, they are seen at their private clinics, sources said. Sadar hospital deputy superintendent Satish Kumar Pathak said he had recommended action against the three doctors.
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We used the loftbed plans, http://ana-white.com/2010/05/furniture-plans-loft-bed.html and the bookshelf plans, http://ana-white.com/2010/06/plans/what-goes-under-loft-bed-how-about-bi... then designed our own headboard. The girls love their new room and we're going to build another one for the boys! We just put a platform bed from Ikea underneath!
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That looks so nice. Youve got some very luck kids!
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big bookcase under loft bed
i want to build this project for my daughter, but the link for the bookcase is a dead link. where can i find the bookshelf plans? i plan on making the loft be a full size, so will be adding 15" to my project. thank you!


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We concede that these adapters will only appeal to a limited audience. Technically, they work with any display that has a Mini DisplayPort input, but their primary reason for being is to input home video components into the 27-inch iMac. It would have been far more convenient had Apple built an HDMI input into its largest iMac from the start. Perhaps the recent addition of HDMI to the Mac Mini offers hope for the next iMac update. For now, annoyingly, you'll need a specialized Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter that can convert an input signal. A standard, inexpensive Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI output adapter won't do the job.
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Can't stand having anything stuck in my ears. It's headphones or nophones for me.
I actually LIKE the feeling of things in my ear. Sick, I know, but I got used to sleeping with "classic" 3M orange earplugs.
Which is is probably why I ended up with Wax Deafness...
Innerfidelity has a new article about cables - it's an okay read, but I wish Tyll would take a firm position. Somebody with the equipment and know-how needs to do a thorough test that cannot be disputed. I don't care who is right to be honest.
What do you want to measure? Small placement changes of the headphones can cause huge changes compared to what cables do...
No test will satsfy those who want to believe in cables. A million tests have already been done. Perceptual thresholds have been defined. It's pretty obvious.
Why should anyone measure via the headphones? The ideal cable just has the same signal come out of it as goes in - surely this is a meter test?
Because people talk about synergy with cable X and headphone Y. "Got a warm headphone and want more treble detail? Get a bright silver cable!" and such nonsense..
Audiophiles will complain that you're not measuring the whole chain if you just measure the cables. But then again, they will also say that there's something going on that eludes science, something that cannot be measured..... it must be the cable fairy (the voice in your head saying: "hey, this cable was **** expensive, it has to sound better").
But anyway, my main point was that even if you could show that a cable adds .5 dB here and there it won't matter much. Placement changes. Earpads wear out. Pressure from the headband can also change over time. And so on..
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Have a laugh at this one. It drives me nuts reading stuff like this.
Just a thought, is the ideal cable really having the same signal go out as that which came in? There are people who like pairing cables with cans, and if they want a cable that makes something brighter or warmer or whatever, they obviously aren't on a hunt for a cable in which the signal on the out end matches the signal on the in end. They are looking for a very long analog equalizer to connect their cans with their amp.
I'm pretty sure that any effects that would come from the cable is much better achieved just with an equalizer, but I think some can + cable pairings might have some merit (in the sense that you can tweak sound by changing the cable, not in the sense that it actually makes sense to do so).
Just a thought, is the ideal cable really having the same signal go out as that which came in?
Ideal or not, unless they are very long, that's what all cables do.
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There are people who like pairing cables with cans, and if they want a cable that makes something brighter or warmer or whatever, they obviously aren't on a hunt for a cable in which the signal on the out end matches the signal on the in end.
Yes, that's what they are looking for. They won't really find it, but they think they will/have.
Can + cable pairings is, IMHO, is a ridiculous concept. You spend a ton of money on a new cable that makes little if any real difference, then if you don't like it, you go find another expensive cable. There is SO much more that can be done with even the most basic equalizer. The problem with using an equalizer to make the same change that a cable would is that the cable change is so tiny (if it exists at all) that you will have trouble making an equalization adjustment that small. The problem is, equalizers are "bad", they are a processor, a DSP that chops your audio up into tiny slices, or a distortion-ridden active circuit, whatever, and wow that's all just horrible. But a piece of expensive cable is created by elvin cable-wrights that make wire out of mithril plated silver laced with magic pixie dust, and that's always worth paying for.
Or not, if you are realistic.
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Well, dunno about those cables (and their $165 7Nclass 30pin Digital Short Cable). But their Go-Dap GD-03 ($20 + free shipping at the time of this post) certainly looks interesting if you have an iPhone3GS... it's a crazy world.
I bought one of those Go-Daps. I use it with my 3G Touch and I like it a lot. It's a neat toy for $20.


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